Data Engineer, Rbc Amplify - 2024

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Job Title

Data Engineer, RBC Amplify - 2024

What is Amplify?

RBC Amplify is an intensive summer innovation program that helps you put your skills to the test while building a product that could disrupt our company and beyond. If you’re a bright mind with fresh ideas, top of your class, own the hackathon circuit and are passionate about innovation, we want you!

What is the opportunity?

As a Data Engineer you will collaborate, innovate, ideate and build in a flexible, start-up environment.

You will tackle real RBC business challenges as a member of a cross-functional team of specialists (think: business, data, and programming) by developing a product that you pitch to stakeholders at the end of the summer.

Over the course of the program, you will have access to subject matter experts, coaches, mentors, as well as technical and professional training and resources to bring your idea to life.

What will you do? Discover. Research. Build. Pitch

• You will be challenged to step outside your comfort zone while applying your teamwork, critical thinking, communication and leadership skills to help your team succeed in ambiguity.
• You will be expected to design, create and deliver a fully functional prototype to RBC that solves a real business need.
• Work with subject matter experts, mentors, executive sponsors (technology and business) to build your solution.
• Executive presentations, developing strategy and communications for your project.
• Immerse yourself in a business challenge with an intense focus on collaboration to develop an innovative product.
• Design, troubleshoot and develop your product.
• Engage in continuous learning through various training opportunities including design thinking, agile development, and other tools.

What do you need to succeed?

Must have

• Experience with application of modern data science techniques
• Ability to challenge the status quo and think outside the box to develop solutions.
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills.
• Creative and analytical thinker who is self-driven and capable of working in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and highly developed communication skills (verbal and written).
• Understanding of programming languages, databases, platforms, frameworks, design techniques and tools, code management tooling, and/or web technologies.
• Must be currently enrolled in a post-secondary institution, graduating between August 2024 and June 2025 (College, Undergrad, Master's or PhD).
• Experience with data transformation, engineering, cleaning, and mining

AND one or more of the following:

• Experience with service-based architectures and API development (Rest, GraphQL, etc.)
• Experience with large language models, natural language processing, topic modelling, or data clustering
• Experience with databases, storage and data visualization tools
• Experience with machine learning algorithms, computational mathematics, bioinformatics or artificial intelligence.

Nice to have

• Experience with hackathons.
• Expressed interest or previous experience in the financial industry or FinTech
• Practical experience in web or mobile development.
• Experience in agile or design thinking methodologies or frameworks.

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• Tons of opportunity to grow specific skills for your future.
• Team up with students from diverse backgrounds and build lasting professional relationships.
• A unique summer experience with the chance to develop a career at RBC.
• Engage with leaders across RBC who support your development through coaching and learning opportunities.
• Contribute to real projects that can make a difference and have a lasting impact at RBC.
• An all-around fun, innovative, and comfortable work environment.
• Be a part of a dynamic, collaborative, progressive and high-performing team.

Amplify 2024

Job Summary

Address:

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada

City:

CAN-ON-TORONTO

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Platform:

Job Type:

Student/Coop (Fixed Term)

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2023-09-11

Application Deadline:

2023-10-08

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